The anesthetist will inform you in detail about the different options for a local, regional or general anesthetic, as well as for pain treatment. Please do not hesitate to clear up any unresolved issues with our specialists.

Department Anesthesiology

If ordered by a doctor we we accompany inpatients with specific nutritional therapy focuses and/or on questions relating to diabetes mellitus.

Department diabetes counseling

Department nutrition counselling

The nursing staff at Balgrist University Hospital provide you with full nursing care and support around the clock. We are here to help you recuperate and we aim to ensure you heal as well as possible and achieve optimum independence.

Our priorities:

• providing professional care before and after your operation
• pain therapy
• treatments for pain and wounds
• holistic care during the rehabilitation phase

We focus on establishing a trusting relationship, building on existing opportunities and including relatives.

Department Nursing Care

In our plaster room, we treat approximately 4'200 patients annually with injuries or fractures to the musculoskeletal system. Our plaster casts are made from synthetic materials (e.g. polyester).

Focus

• Acute care, ongoing treatment and follow-up checks on operated and non-operated injuries to the musculoskeletal system
• Treating patients with diabetic foot syndrome
  
  

Facilities

• Plaster for upper and lower extremities
• Pelvic bone plaster cast
• Corsets

The plaster team comprises specially trained nurses. Thanks to interprofessional cooperation we are able to achieve the best possible therapy and treatment results.

The plaster team works together with the following departments:

• Wound management (wound professionals)
• Orthopaedics
• Spinal Cord Injury Centre
• Rheumatology
• Balgrist Tec AG 

Contact and opening hours
Monday to Friday
8 am - 5 pm
Phone: +41 44 386 15 19

External doctors’ practices and clinics may refer patients directly to the plaster room.

Social counselling

Our social counselling team informs, advises and supports you and your relatives with regard to social and material concerns. The service coordinates cooperation with any internal or external specialists or institutions that are needed in conjunction with your treatment and therapy.

Therapy is frequently required to make a full recovery after certain operations, often in a specialised spa or rehabilitation clinic. Our social counselling team will be pleased to organise any follow-up treatment that may be required in a clinic of this nature. Balgrist University Hospital maintains close links with selected clinics.

Further counselling services:

• Psychological counselling
• Occupational counselling

 
Pastoral care

Our pastoral team is here to support you and your relatives during your stay at the clinic, whether you seek discussion, certain rituals or religious services. Full information about the services provided by the pastoral care team is available on: +41 44 386 14 51.

We analyse and encourage each patient’s functional abilities and resources on an individual basis and according to need. Balgrist University Hospital employs specialist therapists in the following areas:

• physiotherapy
• ergotherapy
• activation therapy
• walking aids

Please keep your scheduled therapy appointments, or inform the therapists in plenty of time if you are unable to attend. Should you have any questions, please contact a member of the nursing staff. Physiotherapy and ergotherapy can be continued as an outpatient at our clinic after a period as an in-patient here.